Cuticle stick and nail cleaner



March 16, 1948.

B. B. PERITZ 2,437,834

1 CUIICLE STICK AND NAIL CLEANER Filed April 2, 1946 INVENTOR B. BARTON PERITZ ATTORN EY Patented Mar. 16, 1948 o STATES PATENT, OFFICE CUTICLE STICK AND NAIL CLEANER Bernard Barton Peritz, New York, N. Y. Application April 2, 1946, Serial No. 658,957

1 Claim. 1

The invention relates to a cuticle stick and nail cleaner and has for its object to provide an implement of extreme simplicity which may be efficiently used to push back cuticle and to clean a persons nails,

The invention will be described in the following specification and illustrated in the drawing forming a part thereof. Referring to said drawing:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view on a larger scale and is taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a detail cross-sectional View taken on line l of Fig. 3.

As illustrated, the cuticle stick and nail cleaner is made from a piece of round stock 5 which may be formed of a suitable plastic, composition or other analagous material,

One end of the stick is slabbed off or bevelled as indicated at 6. This end is advantageously used for pushing back the cuticle of a persons fingernails but if desired might also be used to remove dirt from under the nails.

The opposite end of the stick has a comparatively long curved surface 7 extending from one side to the opposite side as indicated at 1; and this end also has flat converging faces 8 at each side of the curved surface 1 to impart a tapering shape to said end.

In the curved surface I is a longitudinal groove ii beginning at the extremity of the stick. The outer end of this groove intersects the flat faces 8 and forms two short scraping edges to remove dirt from under the fingernails. The edges iii are very effective and the groove 9 serves as a pocket in which the dirt is lodged. The nails are thus very easily cleaned and the groove 9 is easily cleaned out when the operation is finished.

The groove 6 is also useful to supply oil or other emollient substance to the nail or cuticle. The stick can be employed in this way merely by putting a drop of oil into one end of the groove 9.

The instrument may be made of a size to be conveniently carried in a pocket or a woman's hand bag or purse, or it may be made of a larger size and kept on a dresser among other toilet articles.

I claim:

A cuticle stick and nail cleaner having a long curved surface extending from one side to the other side at one end, said end also having flat converging faces at each side of said curved sur-- face to impart a tapered shape to said end, said curved surface having a longitudinal groove therein between said fiat faces, the sides of the groove intersecting said faces adjacent said end to form scraping edges for cleaning beneath the nails, said groove providing a space in which foreign particles under the nails are lodged during the cleaning operation.

B. BARTON PERITZ.

Name Date Wolf Apr. 25, 1933 Grant July 16, 1935 Bader, Jr. Mar. 5, 1940 FOREIGN PATENTS Country Date France Mar, '7, 1926 Number Number 

